Chapter 1247
Some of them were specting that she would probably return to Zephyr’s arms.
[Nichs is dead, while Riley has lost everything now. Who else but Zephyr can she rely on to
protect her?]
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After thatment, someone else added to it. [Riley was good-looking back then, but now… she’s
no different from a disabled person after a finger. Zephyr can have any woman he wants, so why
would he take Riley back?
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Besides, it would be funny if Riley were to throw herself into Zephyr’s arms. The fiancée from back
then is now willing to be a mistress, while the illegitimate daughter of a mistress has now
be the legally recognized wife!]
[Harriet has born a son for Zephyr. There’s no way Riley can threaten her position now.]
Looking at thesements, Riley simply felt amused.
She had never thought of going back to Zephyr again.
“How could these people think that a person who was hurt so deeply would go back to the one who
abandoned her when she needed help most?
If I was abandoned once, there would certainly be a second and third time.”
She didn’t want to be the one abandoned anymore.
Her love for Zephyr had long dissipated, and hatred was all that was left.
After a while, the door was pushed open. A bodyguard of about 30 years of age walked up to Riley
and said, “Ms. Summer, Mrs. Youngblood is on her way. She will arrive in a few minutes. Let’s head
to the hospital entrance first. When she arrivester, we can leave right away.”
“Okay.” Riley nodded.
The bodyguards took the initiative to help Riley carry her luggage.
In addition to that particr bodyguard, Riley realized that more than 20 bodyguards waiting outside
her ward to escort her to the hospital
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entrance.
“Well, I’m just going to the hospital entrance. I don’t think I need so many people to apany me
there.” Riley said, cognizant that all of them won’t be able to fit into the elevator for a single trip.
“Mrs. Youngblood insists, as the hospital entrance is currently chaotic,” the bodyguards said.
“Chaotic? Are there a lot of reporters outside?” Riley mused.
When Riley arrived at the hospital entrance, she found that there were not only reporters but also
members of the Summer family.
At that moment, Peter Summer, the man whom Riley was supposed to greet as her father was
talking about how much he loved Riley and how happy he was that Riley had finally be a
normal person after years of treatment in the hospital. Peter also said that he would take Riley
home and take good care of her. After all, she had beenmitting self-abuse due to her mental
illness over the years, a fact that distressed Peter. Now that Riley had recovered, Peter believed
that her self-abuse would be a thing of the past.
Right then, Riley couldn’t stand it anymore.
Riley had always been hypocritical toward her natural mother. Back then, Peter evenmanded
the housekeepers at home, “Riley is mentally sick. Tie her up. I’ll be taking her to the hospital for
treatment!”
Riley struggled desperately and kept shouting, “I’m not sick. I’m n mentally ill. I am a normal
person!”
However, Peter said coldly, “Mentally sick people usually deny tha are sick. You’re really sick in the
head!”
Hearing Peter’s words made Riley feel as if she had been thrown int depths of hell.
Riley had always known that Peter didn’t love her. On the contrary, Pe hated Riley, but she did not
expect that he could be so evil tomit such an act.
At that moment, as soon as Peter saw Rileying over, he immediately put on a fatherly
expression. “Riley, you’re finally out. I was about to go in and pick you up. I’m d that your illness
is cured. Our efforts to get you treated all these years have not gone to waste. Come, let’s go back.
Your mother always had someone clean your room every day while you
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were not at home all these years, hoping that you be home as soon as possible.”
“My mother?” Riley sneered, “She passed away when I was three years old. Since when did she get
resurrected?”
Riley’s words immediately made the atmosphere at the scene awkward.
The smile on Peter’s face also froze. If it had been in the past, Peter would have pped Riley, but
there were so many reporters around that he was forced to continue his charade.
“Your biological mother died when you were three years old, but your stepmother Larissa treats you
like her own daughter. Over the years, Larissa has been worried about you and often shed tears for
you.”
Meanwhile, Larissa hurriedly stepped forward and said with teary eyes, “Riley, you have suffered. I
will love you more in the future. When I married into the Summer family, I already regarded you as
my own daughter.”
The smile on Riley’s face became more and more sardonic. “It turns out that you wanted to take all
my mother had, even her husband and me?”
Larissa’s expression froze, her face alternating between anger and embarrassment.
At that moment, the smile on Peter’s face finally disappeared. “What are you talking about, Riley? Is
this how you talk to Larissa who has worke hard to raise you?”
Larissa lowered her head and sobbed as if she had been
iprehensibly wronged.
At this moment, it seemed that the other members of the Summer family were all innocent while
Riley was the guilty one.
The reporters on the spot captured the scene with their cameras.
Harriet was secretly feeling smug. She didn’t expect that Riley would react that way.
“The tide of the trending topics would soon be reversed,” Harriet thought.
“Riley, how can you think that? Actually… Mom and Dad loved each other back then but were
separated by a myriad of incidents. Later on, when Mom found out Dad already had a family, she
kept a distance from Dad
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till his first wife died. Mom sympathized with you. That’s why she loved you as her own on the
ount of yourte mother.”
Harriet’s remarks were obviously aimed at rebutting the attacks on the inte, which used
Larissa of being a mistress.
“Really? Larissa never looked like she was holding back to me. If she did, she wouldn’t be sleeping
with Peter while he was still married to my mother. Otherwise, our age would be more than two
years apart,” Riley retorted.
Harriet’s expression changed slightly, but she still kept calm. “Riley, no matter what, we are a family.
We’re here to pick you up. Over the years, our family has suffered a lot on ount of your illness.
Before this, the doctor said that you don’t know what you’re doing whenever your illness acts up.
That’s why you harbor so many misunderstandings about us. But don’t you worry, I’ll rify them
with you one by one.”
While speaking, Harriet stepped forward and tried to hold Riley but was stopped by the bodyguards
beside Riley.
Filled with dissatisfaction, Harriet said, “Riley, why do you trust outsiders over your own family? Can
it be that someone is trying to use you to act against the Summer family?’
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